CHINESE ART IN LVIV

On May 10 a personal exhibition by Lviv National Art Academy graduate Zhang Biyun opened at Pory Roku gallery entitled: Chinese art in Lviv. Zhang Biyun is a talented young artist whose work is closely connected to both Ukraine and her native China. She is well-known for her incredible graphical works in ink, but at this exhibition she presented a series of still-life paintings and portraits for the first time. These works represent the author’s personal perception of the living world - a genre which first interested her while studying in Ukraine. Each painting shows complete unity of content and artistic form, rhythmically organized. In her paintings Zhang Biyun makes symbolic statements and plays with light in a way which adds uniqueness to each work. Among the most characteristic features of Zhang Biyun’s art is her dynamic use of color and contrasts together with an inventiveness and wonderful powers of emotional observation. Paintings by Zhang Biyun are a window into her inner world and are loaded with positive energy. Professor of Lviv Art Academy Svitlana Lupiy commented on the exhibition: “This young Chinese artist has opened up a new world thanks to the Lviv school of art, which impressed her with its rainbow colours and depictions of the material world with numerous decorative stylizations as well as the similarity it shares with French post-impressionism and innovative avant-garde painting techniques.”